Fredrick Pinkney leads the Strong Tower Gospel Chorale in a vocal performance during the 2011 Juneteenth celebration in Grambling. The festival typically includes musical entertainment, as well as games, a pageant and parade.

GRAMBLING — The town of Grambling will hold its Juneteenth Heritage Festival from June 15-19.

Juneteenth, also known as The Emancipation Day, is the oldest known celebration to honor the freedom of slaves in the United States since 1865.

Although Juneteenth is not recognized as a national holiday, people all over the country use this occasion as an opportunity to reflect on African-American heritage and rejoice with their love ones.

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Firefighters with the Lincoln Parish Fire Department and the Ruston Fire Department responded to a fire at the Duraflake plant in Simsboro early this morning.

Lincoln Parish Fire Department officials were unavailable for comment this morning, but officials with the Ruston Fire Department received a call for assistance at exactly 4:42 a.m., said Eric Brazzel, spokesman for the RFD.

“We arrived to find a fire in one of the high rise dryers near a conveyer belt that required multiple ladder trucks to access that particular fire, which was very high up,” Brazzel said.